Vetted Robotics Engineers

“CMU robotics PhD/PhD researcher and former CMU Robotics Club project lead who built a novel Bayes-filter-based system to localize within music so robotic instruments can follow a human’s tempo in real time. Also works on simulation-heavy multi-agent vehicle routing with traffic-signal scheduling, optimizing for real-time performance via profiling, multithreading, and neural-network surrogates for signal control.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on outdoor mobile robot localization and navigation, building ROS1/ROS2 systems with NavSat+EKF sensor fusion and custom Nav2/Costmap2D extensions for 3D obstacle clearance. Demonstrates strong real-world troubleshooting by tracing localization drift to a failing IMU connector, repairing it, and then creating sensor-health monitoring tooling; experienced taking features from Gazebo simulation through field testing to Docker/Kubernetes deployment with CI via GitHub Actions.”

“Robotics software engineer with extensive ROS2 experience building and integrating full autonomous navigation stacks (sensor fusion, ICP/occupancy-grid mapping, planning). Hands-on computer vision work for drones, including monocular depth-from-RGB pipelines (Open3D/OpenCV) and model swaps to improve low-light performance. Also experienced in multi-drone coordination with Crazyswarm2 and Vicon-based state estimation, plus Gazebo simulation for TurtleBot, Franka Emika, and a Lunabotics-style excavation rover.”

“Robotics software lead with 4+ years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning a startup (Inductive Robotics) and General Motors, building autonomous mobile manipulation and AMR material-handling stacks. Has hands-on depth in SLAM/navigation (Cartographer/Nav2), perception, and simulation, and has directly modified Cartographer to handle real-world sensor dropouts. Currently working on fleet-scale mapping capabilities (map merging/editing, trajectory pruning) for multi-robot deployments.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on production-grade autonomy in GPS-denied environments, building full navigation stacks (perception, EKF/UKF sensor fusion, planning, control) in ROS2. Integrated YOLOv8/semantic segmentation/RL policies into real-time NAV2 pipelines via a custom perception-aware costmap layer, with emphasis on deterministic control loops, embedded GPU performance, and robust system observability/fault tolerance.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience migrating a robotics project from ARM to AMD by building a Dockerized environment with PyTorch/CUDA dependencies, improving data processing and battery efficiency. Has integrated ROS 2 nodes for a Time-of-Flight camera and debugged motion-planning issues (tight-turn stopping) using data collection and iterative tuning; also built custom robots in Webots for sensor/actuator-driven behaviors.”

“Robotics engineer with capstone experience building an autonomous food-assembly robot arm, owning perception/deep learning (SAM2-based segmentation) and a model-based RL manipulation policy for deformable food items while also serving as project manager. As a robotics engineering intern at Salin247, optimized an autonomous farm vehicle perception stack to hit 20 FPS by cutting latency from 200ms+ to ~40ms using GPU acceleration (CUDA OpenCV, CuPy) and multiprocessing, and built ROS 2 nodes for real-time perception and streaming.”

“Robotics software engineer who led localization/SLAM work on an autonomous indoor security drone operating in a pre-mapped environment. Implemented a robust localization strategy combining visual PnP loop closures with point-cloud ICP to mitigate issues like visual map aging, and uses ROS tooling (rosbag/TF/RViz) plus Gazebo and Docker for repeatable debugging, simulation, and development.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building ROS2-based distributed multi-robot systems, including task allocation (distance cost matrix) and navigation using Nav2/DWA. Previously on Vicarious’s grasping team, implementing real-world box-picking with vacuum suction and force/torque sensing plus recovery behaviors. Also brings strong engineering hygiene with Gazebo simulation, Dockerized deployments across offices, and GitHub Actions CI/CD with unit/integration testing.”

“Robotics researcher/team lead from ASU’s Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab who rebuilt a failing soft-robotics test bench into a modular 8-Arduino, ROS 2/Python-controlled data-collection system, doubling sampling performance and dramatically reducing downtime. Currently doing thesis work on physics-informed neural network (PIRNN/RNN) modeling of a pneumatically actuated soft robotic arm using experimentally collected trajectory/pressure data.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on controls and motion planning for autonomous flight systems using ROS 2 (rclcpp), Gazebo/RViz, and BehaviorTree.CPP. Has hands-on real-time control experience (1ms loop rate) and has improved system performance by tracing latency issues and refactoring vision components (singleton camera init). Also built low-latency Ethernet/TCP comms on top of the IgH Ethernet stack and uses digital-twin simulation (Gazebo, MuJoCo; beginner Isaac Sim) to validate algorithms.”